All of Fremont lost power this afternoon. There’s a distinctive groan you hear when an office full of techies all find their computers dying at once: frustration, with an undertone of amusement – because it’s all backed up, really, and if the power doesn’t come back quickly enough, we’ll just all take the rest of the day off.

So here I am at home, thinking about what I can do with three unexpectedly free hours this afternoon…

I should mention the fact that I have knocked another item off my project list: I had to stay up late last night, and there was some 20 minutes of tweaking to do before I went to work, but the mysterious music project is finished.